A little severity now--a resolute seizing on our rights now, in this golden opportunity--will be worth more than the shedding of rivers of blood by and by.

Therefore the primary and rudimental legislation of this infant Territory will be worth everything to us in the final settlement of this question.

It is certain that the law is against us; but the law itself is wrong, and has been wrong from the beginning.

The right that belongs to us is the material and inalienable right of revolution." We have no right to assume that a majority of the people of Missouri held the sentiments we have here indicated: probably they did not.

But the dissent was generally unspoken.